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The House of the Spirits
  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099528562
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $24.99

The House of the Spirits

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Paperback
1 Sept 2011
Hardback
16 July 2024
EBook
6 Feb 2025
Audiobook
2 Apr 2026
Hardback
15 Apr 2005
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An international classic for fans of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, set in an unnamed Latin American country over three generations. A magnificent epic of a proud and passionate family, secret loves and violent revolution.

As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future.

Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner Esteban Trueba.

Set in an unnamed Latin American country over three generations, The House of the Spirits is a magnificent epic of a proud and passionate family, secret loves and violent revolution.

'Extraordinary... Powerful... Sharply observant, witty and eloquent' New York Times

'Intensely moving. Both entertaining and deeply serious' Evening Standard

'The only cause The House of the Spirits embraces is that of humanity, and it does so with such passion, humor, and wisdom that in the end it transcends politics…The result is a novel of force and charm, spaciousness and vigor' Washington Post
  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099528562
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende, born in Peru and raised in Chile, is a novelist, feminist, and philanthropist. She is one of the most widely read authors in the world, having sold more than eighty million copies of her books across forty-two languages. She is the author of several bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including The Wind Knows My Name, Violeta, A Long Petal of the Sea, The House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, and Paula. In addition to her work as a writer, Isabel devotes much of her time to human rights causes. She has received fifteen honorary doctorates, been inducted into the California Hall of Fame, and received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, and in 2018, she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. She lives in California with her husband and dogs.

You can visit Isabel Allende at IsabelAllende.com or follow her on Instagram @AllendeIsabel, on Facebook at Facebook.com/IsabelAllende and on X @IsabelAllende
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Praise for The House of the Spirits

Remarkable...a big book that can comprehend the history of a nation, and so many lives, with love

The Times

An exotic vision and a brilliant, impassioned epic

Vogue

Mesmerizing... A novel of force and charm

Washington Post

This is a novel like the novels no one seems to write anymore: thick with plot and bristling with characters who play out their lives over three generations of conflict and reconciliation. A novel to be read for its brilliant craftsmanship and its narrative of inescapable power

El Pais, Madrid

Announcing a truly great read: a novel thick and thrilling, full of fantasy, terror and wit, elaborately crafted yet serious and accurate in its historical and social observations

Die Welt, Berlin

Extraordinary... Powerful... Sharply observant, witty and eloquent

New York Times

Allende is another remarkable storyteller from a continent blessed with many such enchanters . . . Allende has an affection for her characters quite beyond politics, and an estimable ability to bring them to life

Newsday

Intensely moving. Both entertaining and deeply serious

Evening Standard